Safety Quick

SONOMA COUNTY, CA 

CURBSIDE OIL RECYCLING PROGRAM

Sonoma County, California performed a 500-vehicle, 350-household test program using the Safety Quick System which provided drain plugs, Quick Connects and Containers to local residents.

The System was very well accepted and resulted in the adoption of a curbside oil recycling program starting in the Fall of 2000.  

Safety Quick contracted with Goodwill Industries to have the labels and caps attached to the Containers.  Safety Quick believes that using local handicapped workers is a good way to further the good created by such oil recycling programs.

15,000 Safety Quick Containers were purchased.  Post cards were mailed to the 80,000 residents of the City of Santa Rosa, the unincorporated County area and the City of Sonoma.  Different mailers were sent to Santa Rosa residents and Sonoma County residents.  As of November 8, 2000, the Post Office had not yet delivered the post cards.  Updated data will be posted when it is available.

Upon receipt of the postcards, residents fill out the card and drop it in the mail to have SQ Containers delivered to their homes.

Instruction sheets were provided with the containers.

The waste haulers, including Empire Waste Management, had welded metal racks produced and installed on their trucks. 

On recycling day, customers place their oil containers at curbside along with their newspapers, cans, bottles, cardboard and other recyclables.  The waste haulers then take the full oil container and leave an empty one.

Safety Quick is indebted to the following for their support of the Sonoma County Curbside Recycling Program:

Lesli Daniel
Sonoma County Waste Management Agency 
 
Ken Foley
Empire Waste Management
 
West Sonoma County Disposal
 
Pacific Coast Disposal
 
Sunrise Garbage Service

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last updated:  05/28/03 09:40:22 PM

Safety Quick  PO Box 11271 * Santa Rosa, CA  95406-1217 * phone  (800) 275-8081 * fax (707) 573-7302 *email alan@safetyquick.com